Go See Kenya - The Foresty Project
Overview
The coastal coral rag forests found in Southern Kenya are one of the top 25 biodiversity Hotspots in the world, as listed by the World Conservation Union IUCN where you can find a host of rare plant, insect, bird and mammal species.
However, their habitat is under severe threat of deforestation from agricultural encroachment, timber extraction and charcoal production. As a result, the remaining areas of virginal forest are fragmented, forming a patchwork of isolated habitats, which makes threatened species highly vulnerable to extinction. One of the starting points will be to do censuses of the primate species in the area and the numbers in which they are living. This is new work and is vital in establishing the levels of protection that certain primate species need to prevent their extinction.
Go See Kenya also wants to obtain a deforested area to undergo a major re-plantation scheme using only indigenous tree species. Once Go See Kenya have launched this particular scheme, volunteers will be tending to an indigenous tree nursery as part of the re-planting production team. This will mean that local people will have a more effective and genuinely sustainable way of producing building materials and firewood, instead of chopping down indigenous species.
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